Tag: benfoster
Review: EMANCIPATION, Stellar Action Filmmaking, Anguished Will Smith
In an alternate, presumably better timeline, Will Smith’s long-expected Oscar win this past spring would not have involved the Slap heard and seen around the world. Instead, Smith would have ignored Chris Rock’s distasteful joke at Jada Pinkett-Smith’s expense, accepted...
Review: THE CONTRACTOR Goes By the Book
Chris Pine, Ben Foster and Kiefer Sutherland star in an action thriller.
Interview: Emile Hirsch on MIDNIGHT IN THE SWITCHGRASS, Working with Friedkin and Tarantino
“The most significant young performance in generations in American film” is how Sean Penn described Emile Hirsch's work on the epic Into the Wild. Hirsch physically transformed himself to bring to the screen the liberating and deadly adventure of Chris...
Crowdfund This: BLOOD SHED, Evil & Laughs & Buildings & Blood
We at ScreenAnarchy, and I expect many of our readers, are big fans of James Moran, screenwriter of Severance, Cockneys vs Zombies, Tower Block, and episodes of Doctor Who and Torchwood. He's also directed some fantastic shorts, such as Crazy...
AnarchyVision: Talking MOONLIGHT, THE HANDMAIDEN and More
In this weekend at the movies chat, I talk about the fantastic Moonlight, Park Chan-Wook's terrific The Handmaiden, the great music doc Oasis: Supersonic and, uh, Inferno....
Review: HELL OR HIGH WATER Freshens Up the Tried and True Western
Bank robbers. Texas Rangers. A sun-drenched landscape. Oil derricks. Tumbleweeds. A loose cannon ex-con. A brother just trying to do the right thing. An aging lawman on the doorstep of retirement. Throw it all in a blender and you're bound...
Cannes 2016 Review: HELL OR HIGH WATER Does Outlaw Justice Darn Right
Bank robbers. Texas Rangers. A sun-drenched landscape. Oil derricks. Tumbleweeds. A loose cannon ex-con. A brother just trying to do the right thing. An aging lawman on the doorstep of retirement. Throw it all in a blender and you're bound...
Review: THE PROGRAM Portrays Lance Armstrong As A Fascinating Liar
British filmmaker Stephen Frears is no stranger to bringing a controversial and highly publicized real life case to the big screen. With both The Queen and The Program, Frears explores how much the reality of an influential figure can differ...
Review: LONE SURVIVOR Offers An Intense, Visceral Depiction Of The War Experience
Samuel Fuller, who directed some of the best war movies ever made, and who was a combat veteran himself, famously stated, "To make a real war movie would be to fire at the audience from behind a screen." Peter Berg's...
Ben Foster Leads The Cast Of Duncan Jones' WARCRAFT
Warcraft, the ever popular fantasy game franchise from Blizzard Entertainment (also makers of Starcraft), has been set to come to the big screen for nigh on half a decade now thanks to the folks at Legendary Pictures. Once set to...
Review: AIN'T THEM BODIES SAINTS, A Moody Tale Shrouded In Broken Americana
As someone who spends a good portion of his days talking and writing about cinema, there comes an interesting moment when certain difficulties as to how to communicate rear their ugly head in either form of discourse. Sometimes it is...
Hey LA! Go See AIN'T THEM BODIES SAINTS Early, Courtesy of ScreenAnarchy
You read that right! IFC Films is hosting a special screening of Sundance hit Ain't Them Bodies Saints next week in Beverly Hills -- and ScreenAnarchy has got a handful of tickets for our readers. You want a pair?...
Indie Beat: 5 Most Intriguing Indies In August
Okay folks, let's get to it. Here are five independent features opening theatrically this August in the U.S. that just may be worth your attention and dollars. Two of the films I have seen, and the other three I am...
BAMcinemaFest 2013 Once Again Brings Some Of The Best Of American Independent Film To Brooklyn
The 5th edition of BAMcinemaFest, an essential annual survey of the best rising talent in American independent film, brings discoveries from Cannes, Sundance, South by Southwest, Berlin, Rotterdam, and other fests to Brooklyn, and it's a guarantee that you will...
LA Film Fest 2013 Review: AIN'T THEM BODIES SAINTS Sure Is Pretty, But It Ain't Quite Divine
As someone who spends a good portion of his days talking and writing about cinema, there comes an interesting moment when certain difficulties as to how to communicate rear their ugly head in either form of discourse. Sometimes it is...
London 2011: HERE Review
Cartography is a strange discipline these days. With the physical geography of the world long since mapped (though that may change with global warming,) most cartographers are either concerned with political lines, or with incredibly detailed satellite imaging made possible...
ScreenAnarchy Top Kills: 30 DAYS OF NIGHT
Ladies and gentlemen, reviews may have been mixed on David Slade's 30 Days Of Night but one thing is certain: It contains one of the truly great decapitation scenes of all time. Josh Hartnett should wield an axe more...
